facebook   twitter   mail  

The Gisborne Photo News

 

41

Pictures From The Past

×

This old view of Gisborne, entitled Gisborne From Whataupoko (for some reason or other) is actually taken from the hill below the hospital, in Mangapapa. The zig-zag road on the left is Perry Street, and behind that street is Clifford Street. Kaiti Hill is visible in the right background, in this picture from Mrs J. T. Hill.

×

1929 and the scene is the Morere School. Names still familiar in the Gisborne-Wairoa district, belonging to faces in this picture, include Bob Short (the late Mayor of Wai-roa), Ian Shaw, Gordon Shaw, Bill Short, Judy Short, Trixie Swarbrick, Audrey West, Betty Joblin and Doreen Shaw. Some of the girls' names might obviously be not so familiar, due to Cupid, but 1929 is not that long ago.